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Total Mastectomy

Simple or Total Mastectomy

The entire breast is removed, but no lymph nodes are removed in this procedure. Simple mastectomy is most frequently used for further cancer prevention or when the cancer does not go to the lymph nodes.

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Reviewed by Arnold Wax, MD on February 18, 2010
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